Outdoor Columns as Post Wraps and Exterior Lighting for a CPW Entry Assembly

With this Miami property, we find the 6x6 steel posts situated behind existing stone columns. An overall opening that accomodates both the Driveway Gate and Pedestrian Gate, separated by a steel post that has been wrapped with our Wood Gate Column style #2.

A single Wood Column separating a pedestrian and driveway gates.

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We see the Pedestrian Gate hinging directly off the columns with 4" bronze ball-bearing butt hinges available through CPW.  The latch is triggered with a Rofu electronic strike system not recommended by CPW.  (Standard locksets require a much narrower swing cleaned, and therefore run a higher risk of seeing the gate swell, causing it to wedge against the post or column and what results is a pushing and shoving motion each time the gate is opened and closed.  The joinery is not happy with this effort, and for that reason, we will not stand by the long term survival of a gate not sing a standard gate latch with a horizontal drop bar.)

For those who prefer an electronic access, we recommend the Magnolock, which is a magnetic catch that allows for the gate t expand and contract without losing it's magnetic connection.)

Four Lighted Gate Columns supporting a double Driveway Gate, with a Pedestrian Gate on the right and a fixed Wood Fence Panel on the left.

Bel Air, CA.
An example of where the column was designed to the existing dimensins of a stucco pillar. As with most all Gate Columns, it arrived as a three-sided unit, slipping around the existing post and the fourth side secured in place as a final, easy step. 

A common, and forgivable, weakness is to accentuate the new work with an oil stain. In this application, however, we might best consider our assembly in a more modest role by giving it a color that is more in keeping with the precedent of the house. We're after the overall affect, the sum of the various contributions to a property preferably not allowed to upstage the balance of the whole. Perhaps the olive green we see within the window sashes and bay roofline would be a better color match.